Metallo-β-lactamases among Enterobacteriaceae from routine samples in an Italian tertiary-care hospital and long-term care facilities during 2008

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-189

  Aschbacher, R ^a   Pagani, L ^b   Doumith, M ^c   Pike, R ^c   Woodford, N ^c   Spoladore, G ^b   Larcher, C ^a   Livermore, D M ^c  

^a Azienda Sanitaria dell'Alto Adige   (Italy)

^b Ist di Immunol e Malat Infettive   (Italy)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colonization; ESBL; Infection; Metallo lactamase; qnrS; SHV; VIM

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENZYME; CARBAPENEM; CARBAPENEMASE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; IMIPENEM; METALLO BETA LACTAMASE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CITROBACTER AMALONATICUS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CITROBACTER AMALONATICUS; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER AEROGENES; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; KLEBSIELLA OXYTOCA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MORGANELLA MORGANII; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII;

EID: 78751629893     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03225.x     Document Type: Article

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